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No, not a bad Proclaimers cover. Following the success of the 10,000 pushups thread we thought you all might be interested in breaking down a few more forumite stereotypes by contributing to a cumulative 10,000-mile run. (apologies for those of you who work in new money - can you convert?).

So, the rules are simple. Add the distance you've run to the current total. I'll start with today's outing:

Hey! This is going well. You're right, it will take a while but we should still get done faster than the 'count to a million' thread (and we'll get fitter). Anyway, sorry I've been too busy to run for a couple of days.

66 + 4 = 70

Spoiler:

Giant Speck wrote:You're a demon! DEMON!!!!

Oregonaut wrote:CURSE YOU VILLAIN!!

PhoenixEnigma wrote:Jumble is either the best or worst Santa ever, and I can't figure out which. Possibly both.

Agree grade & comment. So, we'll take a year. If, during that year we all take one or two extra runs per week, just so we can post it here then it'll be worth it. Hey look, it's the Internet having a positive impact on health & fitness! Yay us!

Ps writing on a train, in my running gear, half way through running to work. All because I wanted to post a few more miles here.

Spoiler:

Giant Speck wrote:You're a demon! DEMON!!!!

Oregonaut wrote:CURSE YOU VILLAIN!!

PhoenixEnigma wrote:Jumble is either the best or worst Santa ever, and I can't figure out which. Possibly both.

I don't think it's unrealistic. And the more people join the more easier it'll be. But what if we start lyingBut no, what would be the point in lying...I will try as soon as the protests in Tunisia come to an end.Just one thing, how you measure your distances?

A few different ways. You might have a pedometer, or if you have an iPhone/iTouch, you can use the Nike+ GPS app like I do to track your runs, or the iMapMyRun app works just as well too. Or if you don't have those, you can also use the website MapMyRun to track your runs, which I found were usually accurate to within about 0.05 mi if you use the 'follow roads' function on the tracker. Maybe less so if you don't, but it gets you in the neighbourhood.

Most people would post something witty, humourous, or perhaps offensive in their signature. Unfortunately, you won't find anything like this here.

I wear a garmin running watch when I remember the damn thing (& can be bothered to stand around in the cold waiting for it to log onto the satellites). Thanks to this I now know the distance of most of my regular runs. I've also tried using mapmyrun and I have to say it's impressively accurate. Given that a gps is only accurate to around 15-20 meters i assume if you rung a lot of tight corners the accuracy won't be much worse on mapmyrun. It's certainly accurate enough for these purposes!

Spoiler:

Giant Speck wrote:You're a demon! DEMON!!!!

Oregonaut wrote:CURSE YOU VILLAIN!!

PhoenixEnigma wrote:Jumble is either the best or worst Santa ever, and I can't figure out which. Possibly both.